Meanings
nounblue straggler (plural blue stragglers)
plural blue stragglers
- astronomyAn unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters.
This boosted the mass of the companion, turning it into a blue straggler, while reducing the companion to a sub-dwarf B star.
2015, David Stevenson, The Complex Lives of Star Clusters, Springer, →ISBN, page 168
Translations
Arabic نجوم زرقاء شاردَة
- نجوم زرقاء شاردَةunusually hot and blue star
Catalan estrella endarrerida blava
- estrella endarrerida blavaunusually hot and blue star
German Blaue Nachzügler
- Blaue Nachzüglerunusually hot and blue star
Norwegian Bokmål blå etterslenger
- blå etterslengerunusually hot and blue star
Spanish estrella rezagada azul
- estrella rezagada azulunusually hot and blue star
Swedish blå eftersläntrar
- blå eftersläntrarunusually hot and blue star
Turkish mavi başıboş
- mavi başıboşunusually hot and blue star
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